Communication in Breast Cancer Care

Leiden University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Quality of Life; Communication

Treatments: Behavioral: Communciation intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05390723

N21CPB-IRBd22-103

2022-01-07-L.M.vanVliet-V1-36 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will create 4 information-video's about chemotherapy side-effects in curative breast cancer care. The communication is manipulated in the four videos. Participants will watch the video before the first chemotherapy and complete questionnaires before and after viewing the video and after chemotherapy 1,2 and 4. (The investigators cannot yet reveal the manipulation as it would influence the participants)

Full description

NA, the investigators cannot yet reveal the manipulation as it would influence the participants.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult (>18 years old) female breast cancer patients
• Chemo-naïve patients
• Scheduled in for curative neo-adjuvant chemotherapy: Four courses of AC chemotherapy (all combinations of AC + other chemotherapy courses are eligible)
• Cognitively able to fill out an online questionnaire
• Having internet access
• Sufficient command of the Dutch language
• pre-chemo no previous treatment or pre-chemo breast-conserving surgery and radiotherapy (WLE patients)

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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27 participants in 4 patient groups

video 1

Experimental group

Description:

The investigators cannot yet reveal the specific communication that will be manipulate, as this might influence participant outcomes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Communciation intervention

video 2

Experimental group

Description:

The investigators cannot yet reveal the specific communication that will be manipulate, as this might influence participant outcomes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Communciation intervention

video 3

Experimental group

Description:

the investigators cannot yet reveal the specific communication that will be manipulate, as this might influence participant outcomes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Communciation intervention

video 4

Experimental group

Description:

the investigators cannot yet reveal the specific communication that will be manipulate, as this might influence participant outcomes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Communciation intervention